A Novel Therapy for REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) | Zendy

Michael J. Howell | Zendy; Patricia A. Arneson | Zendy; Carlos H. Schenck | Zendy

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A Novel Therapy for REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD)

Author(s) -

Michael J. Howell,

Patricia A. Arneson,

Carlos H. Schenck

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

journal of clinical sleep medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.529

H-Index - 92

eISSN - 1550-9397

pISSN - 1550-9389

DOI - 10.5664/jcsm.1470

Subject(s) - medicine , rem sleep behavior disorder , sleep (system call) , parasomnia , polysomnography , audiology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , psychiatry , electroencephalography , computer science , operating system

RBD may result in sleep related injury (SRI) particularly if a patient exits the bed during dream enactment behavior (DEB). The complex auditory processing and low arousal threshold of REM sleep offers a therapeutic window to halt behavior prior to SRI. We evaluated whether a recorded message prevents SRI in medically refractory RBD.

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